Whitley man jailed for glass attack

A Whitley man who glassed a town centre reveller after a night out last year has been jailed.

Tristan Douglin, 23, admitted attacking another man – known only as ‘Timber’ – outside Zen nightclub in Friar Street at around 2am on November 12.

At Reading Crown Court last Friday, CCTV footage was shown in which Douglin was seen running out of the club and smashing a glass against another man’s head.

The man was then seen stumbling around with blood gushing on to his clothes.

Douglin, of Upper Meadows Road, needed 17 stitches in his own hand after the incident but the victim – thought to be a friend of Douglin – said he did not want to help the police with their enquiries.

Last month Douglin admitted one count of wounding in relation to the incident.

Sentencing him to 12 months in prison, the recorder Peter Rouch said: “The use of a glass to injure someone is a very serious matter and the injuries that can be caused can be severe and often permanent.

“The use of a glass in this way is so serious that the only appropriate sentence is one of immediate custody.”